38. Before Wendy’s trip to India, she read a book that said India has four main castes. When she arrived, she asked Veda, an Indian woman, “Which of the four castes does your family belong to?” Veda smiled and corrected Wendy, pointing out that  

29. Which of the following reflects the growing trend of “buy and return” activity, or “religious shopping,” in reference to faith?    

35. Barack Obama is widely understood to be the first African American elected as president of the United States, even though his birth mother was White. This demonstrates the concept of __________        in the United States.  

CONGRATS! You’ve finished the second midterm assessment. Way to go, friend. You’ve earned yourself a break – and also a snack like this happy quokka! Link to a National Geographic video about the Australian quokka (1 min. 48 sec.) More fun facts about the quokka can be found here.  

1. Thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, such as Adam Ferguson and John Millar, believed that private property was a beneficial institution. What was their reasoning?  

41. Bryan has internalized the idea that he should strive to earn lots of money so he can live a good life, and he knows he’s supposed to do honest hard work to achieve this goal. However, he finds this extremely difficult since all the jobs in his rural Idaho town have dried up because overlogging, wildfires, and droughts have decimated the timber and tourist industries. Bryan is experiencing  

47. Race scholars point out that White people can choose to identify or not identify with certain ethnic groups. For example, quite a few celebrities, including Johnny Cash, Miley Cyrus, and Johnny Depp have claimed to have Native American heritage, something which would not be obvious or apparent about them otherwise. This example demonstrates the concept of  

9. Modern-day schools tend to reward which of the following parenting techniques?  

6. A form of tracking in higher education is found more and more often in two-year community colleges, in which students are encouraged to choose a major early on. This strategy is called    

42. Phrenology was an early twentieth-century pseudoscience that read people’s intelligence, capacities, and race from